The King of Cocaine bought his 20-acre estate in Guatapé, Colombia, after his daughter Manuela was born in 1984, and he named it in her honour.

It was built with double-layered walls for hiding cash and cocaine, and boasted a private disco, a pool, a guesthouse, a seaplane dock, tennis courts, and a football field used to land helicopters.

But a vigilante group called Los Pepes, funded by Escobar’s Cali Cartel rivals, destroyed La Manuela in 1993 by detonating 200kg of TNT in a bathroom.

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